Forgotten for a century inside a Cairo museum basement, 4,000-year-old royal bones are rewriting ancient Egyptian history.

When archaeologists unwrapped an Egyptian mummy, they weren’t expecting jewels, a curse, or a royal secret — they found pages ...

Zahi Hawass writes on the story behind the discovery and identification of the mummy of the ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut ...

A bundle of 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy remains stored in a Hungarian museum collection spent years carrying the wrong ...

A spectacular new institution and a project to sequence the genomes of mummies are fuelling debate over the future of ...

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Ancient Egypt has captivated people for centuries, inspiring countless books, documentaries, and blockbuster movies. Yet many of the ideas we take for granted about pharaohs, pyramids, mummies, and ...

Old friends, new tales : the mummies and coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science / Michele L. Koons -- A history of research and exploring new narratives : contextualizing the Denver Museum ...

The discovery comes as part of an ongoing study using CT scans to order to analyze the remains of six different mummies, the oldest of which dates back approximately 2,300 year. Newly completed CT ...

Scientists at the world’s only mummy research institute are combing crypts and caverns for ancient remains—and using new tools to gather fresh insight about how our ancestors once lived. Unlike their ...

After Napoleon’s Egypt campaign, the European bourgeoisie became fascinated by pyramids, hieroglyphs and mummies. The latter were shipped to Europe by the thousands, despite laws prohibiting the trade ...